Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > I added a mount flag over the weekend that allows you to do this:
> >
> > touch aux abc:def Aux
> >
> > producing the files aux, abc:def, and Aux, all in the same directory.
> >
> > I encode filenames with special characters (extremely similar to
> > Robert's encoding in the setup download directory) when a certain mount
> > flag is detected.  If this bit isn't set, the DLL behaves as usual.
>
> Cool!
>
> > This was really much easier than I thought it would be, so I've probably
> > missed something.
> >
> > One question, though, is that this now ambiguates things like a:/foo.
>
> Would it be possible to split them up so one option allows case-sensitive tricks
> and the other enables special chars in files names (e.h., ':') ?

..and when special chars is disabled treat 'a:' as a directory?

> > Does this reference the a: drive or the a: directory?  I'm assuming that
> > it should probably be the a: directory in those cases where your
> > current directory is one that has the proper bit set but this makes
> > me slightly uncomfortable since it is such a departure from the way
> > cygwin used to work.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Yeah, when do we get to use it? :-)
>
> > cgf
> >
>
> Elfyn
>

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